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COVERS Chapters1 : Childhood and Delinquency and Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice Then and Now

Videos: Orphan Trains and status offenders

Optional: Juvenile justice system

Powerpoints: childhood and delinquency, History of the Juvenile Justice system

1.Describe the concept of Parens Patriae and explain how it relates to the juvenile justice system.

2, What were the Orphan Trains and what did Charles Loring Brace and the Children’s Aid Society seek to accomplish?

3.Briefly explain how the Orphan Trains resembled the modern day Foster care system?

1. What is a status crime? Can adults be charged with a status crime? According to the video, what are 2 status crimes?

2. According to the video, Juvenile Status Offenders/Educational PSA, status offenses account for what percentage of juvenile offenses?

a.Less than 1 percent

b.12 percent

c.18 percent

d.50%

1. Which of the following offenses account for the majority of status offenses?

a.Drinking and driving

b.Drive by shootings

c.Truancy

d.shoplifting

These questions are taken directly from the book, but note that some of the answers to these questions correspond to the answers for the previous short answer questions.

1.__ is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 – 24 in the United States.

a. Accidental death

b. Homicide

c. Suicide

d. Substance abuse

1. According to ___, ego identity is formed when a person develops a firm sense of self.

a. Erik Erickson

b. Emile Durkheim

c. Sigmund Freud

d. Robert Merton

3.Young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure,substance abuse, and early sexuality are referred to as _____.

a. Juvenile delinquents

b. Working poor

c. At-risk youth

d. Latch-key youth

4.The tendency for youths to reduce the frequency of their offending behavior as they become older is called the ____.

a. Learning curve

b. Aging-out process

c.. Maturation cycle

d. Period of intellectual growth

1. Governmental response to the care of needy children can be traced back to the _____.

a. Chancery Courts

b. Poor laws

c. Welfare houses

d. Juvenile laws

1. More than _____ million youths are arrested each year for crimes ranging in seriousness from loitering to murder.

a. 2.2

b. 3.2

c. 2.7

d. 1.5

1. Family structure and the role of children began to change after the __.

a. Civil War

b. Enlightenment

c. Middle Ages

d. First World War

1. From the through the , American cities created curfew laws designed to limit the presence of children on city streets after dark.

a. 1900s, 1960s

. 1850s, 1900s

c. 1880s, 1920s

d. 1920s, 1970s

1. A family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters and exercises

   complete control over his wife and children is called ____.

a. Parens patriae

b. Paternalistic

c. Matriarchal

d. Democratic

1. Teenage birthrates have declined substantially during the past decade with the sharpest declines among _____ girls.

a. White

b. Middle class

c. African-American

d. Hispanic

1. The Chancery Courts dealt with _____.

a. Highborn minors who were orphans

b. Juvenile criminal violations of the law

c. Adult criminal violations of the law

d. Offenses against religious laws

1. The Latin phrase parens patriae was used to refer to the __.

a. Role of the father as head of the household

b. Role of parents as absolute rulers over the child

c. Role of the king as the father of his country

d. Role court in determining who is the father of the child

1. Nineteenth-century reformers who developed programs for troubled youth and influenced

   legislation creating the juvenile justice system were referred to as the _____.

   a. Moral reformers

b. Do-gooders

c. Child savers

d. Teachers

1. A philosophical viewpoint that encourages the state to take control of wayward children and provide care, custody, and treatment to children is called the _____.

a. Best interest of the child

b. Moral reformation

c. Period of Enlightenment

d. Proper parent philosophy

15 Early English jurisprudence held that children under the age of_____ were legally incapable of committing crimes.

a. 6

b. 10

c. 7

d. 16

1. Most states define “minor child” as an individual who falls under a statutory age limit, most commonly or years of age.

       a.  13 or 14

b. 15 or 16

c. 16 or 17

d. 17 or 18